Hi! On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 11:41:25 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2014-07-13 13:17:24 +0200, Arno Töll wrote: > > Unfortunately it turns out, that /a lot/ of people use "aptitude > > --purge-unused safe-upgrade", or the apt equivalent "apt-get > > dist-upgrade --purge" which causes dpkg to purge the user's > > configuration, in particular enabled modules, during the upgrade > > because apache2.2-common disappears in that step. [...] > > Is there any reason why apt-get/aptitude removes the config files > just after the package is removed, and not at the end of the upgrade > process? IMHO, doing the later is safer and would solve this problem > with Apache.
It just calls dpkg with --purge. Something that would also fix this issue (among other upgrade problems) is using dpkg “transactions”: <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=579790#82> Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140716114612.ga3...@gaara.hadrons.org
